The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-29

linen should get n snlhli sum Wheh
my march Is sold along what we shall
call the Rue dc Park row. Then shall
reio cement frst-rate whom everybody
shall whistle it or play il or sing it, !
now close up this letter with small re-
mark and il is this: When you sh all
expect 10 have great authors, or send
good men to foreign countries TO rcp-
resent your grand country, do not
economic too much. Pardon me to
write you mean thing, but it
will take century 10 make your liter
ature and your foreign Ministry grow
up so that they shall fit your great
financial embarrassments.
| will now excuse you and say so
long, with my love to the presiding
officer of your country, whose name |
do not now recall.
Another gentleman, who asks TO
have his name withheld, writes as fol-
lows:
SIR: viii you kindly use J our intlu-
| BUCe III lHc u!IcClion VI IhNVi ho''o"h
copyright9 Isuppose that have suf-
fered more than others, but feel Keen
" the loss have sustained through the
lack of projection to my brains. For
one session | was II chaplain in our
National Congress, and the prayers
with which | opened the session were
regarded so highly by friends that |
had the stenographer take them down,
and at the close of the session pub
lished them in a small volume, which
was duly copyrighted. | now learn
that tn book has appeared in Eng
land, published in much cheaper form,
and, without paying any royalty to me,
is practically within the reach OF all.
1t thus throws down the bars and,
ignoring my rights, tells everybody to
help himself TO Gods richest blessings.
Is this treating me square? Is the
Throne of Grace TO be thrown open TO
Tom, Dick and Harry in that wayP
spent days and nights at Washing
ton in the construction OF logical,
grammatical and non-partisan prayer
that would meet the wants Of the peo-
pie, and now. while my own country
men, who would have to pay me a
small royalty on the book if they
bought it, do not seem to yearn for it,
across the water my unprotected
prayers go oil like hot cakes.
SO potent were these prayers. | am
told, that member of Congress would
frequently pause TO listen, with his
front teeth imbedcd in Rhode Island
Greening, and forget to cat it till had
ceased.
Now, while am forgotten. The rag
tag and bob tail of Great Britain are
enabled by an outlay of one penny
each TO approach the Throne of Grace
like gentleman
!, the author of these petitions. can
go on, | suppose, adding to the Itera-
ture of the world and perhaps never
see Europe myself, simply because
there is no international law which will
make it pay to be the proprietor of an
easy running set of brains
| wish now that had prayed as i
felt like doing AT the time. | wish !
had been more brief and more scalh-
ing instead of striving to soothe the
members OF Congress with a collection
of prayers that would have read better
any day in the Record than what was
said by Congress itself.
/ know il will be urged that the
Lords Prayer is not copyrighted, but
that is another matter altogether l
am poor man. Yours truly. -.
A man who signs himself Thinker
writes in a free, running hand Us fol-
lows:
SIR: wish you would assist in stir
ring up this international copyright
matter and urge the better protection
of thought. am thinker myself. |
very early in life gave up the cnervat-
ing duties of waving stubborn buck
saw to and fro at 40 cents per cord for
butternut and elm wood and 80 for
white oak and hickory, resolving to
give up my whole life TO thought. |
am the author of The Anglers Com
plete Book of Flies, flannel volume
bond in alligator skin with catgul lead
ers and other heavy editorials illustrate
ed with artificial flies to suit The reader.
This book has had great sale
among thinking men and, as il cannot